CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS (20-13-4) AT ARIZONA COYOTES (17-15-3) 8PM Central FS Arizona/CSN Chicago
THE BUZZ
Don't look now, but the "lowly" Coyotes are over .500 and have surprised a few "good" teams this year. And the way the Blackhawks have been playing the last couple of games, a win is far from guaranteed tonight. If there's some good news for the Hawks tonight, they face Arizona backup Anders Lindback who has been somewhat porous this year. Andrew Shaw replaces Teuvo Teravainen at LW on Jonathan Toews' line. I would expect to see recently recalled Erik Gustafsson on defense tonight, though that is not confirmed.
THE NUMBERS
GOALS PER GAME Chicago 16th 2.59 Arizona 8th 2.71
GOALS AGAINST PER GAME Chicago 10th 2.41 Arizona 28th 3.11
POWER PLAY Chicago 5th 21.4% Arizona 28th 15.7%
PENALTY KILL Chicago 9th 82% Arizona 19th 80.3%
PROJECTED LINEUPS
Chicago
Shaw Toews Hossa Panarin Anisimov Kane Desjardins Danault Teravainen Bickell Rasmussen Garbutt
Keith van Riemsdyk Hjalmarsson Seabrook Gustafsson Rozsival
Crawford
Arizona
Rieder Vermette Boedker Domi Tikhonov Duclair Martinook Richardson Doan Scott Chipchura Downie
Ekman-Larsson Murphy Dahlbeck Michalek Grossmann Stone
Lindback
I'll have a recap tomorrow,
JJ